Updated 23:30 KST to include details from KCTV broadcast and location of the joint strike drill.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed a “joint strike” military drill on Friday, the one-year anniversary of his ill-fated Hanoi summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, the official Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) reported early Saturday morning.

The military drill — conducted to “judge the mobility and the fire power strike ability” of North Korea’s troops, KCNA wrote — ended what had appeared to be an ominously long silencebetween Washington and Pyongyang during the start of the new year, following months of